Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:36:30 +0100 From: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing bzip2 in default distribution? Message-ID: <200802042336.30363.wundram@beenic.net> In-Reply-To: <20080204230100.Q34453@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20080204230100.Q34453@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Am Montag, 4. Februar 2008 23:04:57 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: > why bzip2 is still used. > > grzip from ports (archivers/grzip) is much faster and compresses much > better and it's not GNU licenced bzip2 isn't GNU licensed, just to get things straight (straight from www.bzip.org): """...because it's open-source (BSD-style license), and, as far as I know, patent-free. (To the best of my knowledge. I can't afford to do a full patent search, so I can't guarantee this. Caveat emptor). So you can use it for whatever you like. Naturally, the source code is part of the distribution.""" -- Heiko Wundram Product & Application Development
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